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---In [email protected], <maillists-yahoo@...> wrote :
> my sed does not have the option "-E",
> so i had to add change it a bit:
>
"(> )*" --> "[> ]*"
Note the above transformation is not equivalent. They mean entirely different things.
in your sed you try to accommodate the regex as
(> )* --> \(> \)\1* assuming at least one > space pair.
while the regex
[> ]* --> can mean any sequence of > or spaces & not necessarily the repeat of > space
, though that would be just one special case of that.
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